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Literacy In Action for Fifth Grade Teachers

• ​​Annotating Text
• Close Reading Informational Text
• Close Reading in an Intervention Group​​
• Interactive Read Aloud: Informational Text
• Studying Author's Craft and Intent
• Preteaching Vocabulary
• Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
• Frontloading Vocabulary
• Using Photographs to Explore the Past
• Keep It or Junk It: Student Run Lesson
• Finding Main Idea
• ​Character Detectives​
• Teaching Intertextuality
• ​Perspective and Point of View
• Analyzing Text: Point of View in Persuasive Text
• Improving Research Skills with Effective Keywords​

• Teaching Effective Writers
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
• Writing for Audience
• Writing to Convey Events (Narrative)
• Writing Fantasy
• Descriptive Writing
• Summarizing
• Opinion Writing
• Organizing Information to Make a Claim
• Using Evidence in Writing
• Putting Thoughts on Paper​
• Circle Maps Organizer
• Cause and Effect
• ​Inquiry Group
• ​Comparing and Contrasting
• List Group Label
• Poetry Perspectives and Word Choice (3 parts)

• ​​21st Century Learning in Action
• Peer Conferring: Revising Writing
• Respectful Talk​
• ​Science Literacy​
• Text Based Debate
• ​Partner Discusssion
• Discussion: Point of View

• Fluency with informational Text

• ​​Five Keys to Assessment​
• Formative Assessment:        Speaking/Listening